Top Process Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Designs, develops, validates, and improves manufacturing processes, materials, equipment, and tooling for aerospace products. Conducts material and product testing, analyzes failures, evaluates risks, documents procedures and specifications, and supports engineering design reviews and product handoffs. The role requires advanced process and materials expertise, statistical analysis, independent decision-making, and collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, and machine shop teams. May supervise technicians and occasionally travel.

Leads continuous improvement across high-mix, low-volume CNC machining operations. The role develops stable, efficient manufacturing processes; improves quality, productivity, and OEE; manages capital equipment and tooling projects; designs fixtures and workstations; supports new product introduction; applies Lean, Six Sigma, GD&T, FMEA, DFMA, and statistical process analysis; and mentors engineers, technicians, and production teams.

Own CNC process development and design machining workflows, integrate automation systems, optimize toolpaths, collaborate across teams, and lead yield improvement efforts.

Leads the Solon site's automation program from launch through full-scale production. Sets technical strategy, directs automation system design and development, manages project scope, resources, timelines, risks, and execution, and coordinates controls, process, automation, Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams. Provides technical guidance on robotics, machine vision, PLCs, HMIs, and integrated manufacturing systems while communicating roadmap and progress to senior leadership. Develops technical talent and drives continuous improvement and technology adoption.

Designs and optimizes material flow, equipment layouts, production sequencing, and automation across sawmill and engineered wood facilities. Conducts bottleneck analysis, time studies, OEE analysis, capacity modeling, and lean improvement initiatives. Partners with production, maintenance, and capital projects teams on equipment installations, mill reconfigurations, modernization, commissioning, and documentation. Requires hands-on mill-floor work and extensive wood products manufacturing experience.

Develop and scale microelectronics manufacturing processes for electro-optical devices, manage NPI to high-volume production, optimize yields via DOE/SPC, partner with vendors and automation teams, lead failure investigations, and create SOPs and training for production technicians.

Lead development and implementation of SOPs, KPIs, and statistical monitoring for beverage can and end manufacturing. Drive process improvement, material qualifications, consumable reduction, training, and Lean/Six Sigma projects across plants.

Own process engineering for chocolate and confectionery innovation projects from technical brief through factory implementation. Translate recipes into process flows, equipment requirements, operating parameters, trial plans, and scale-up strategies. Lead factory trials, validation, commissioning, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, process optimization, commercialization, shelf-life support, and technical documentation while collaborating with R&D, Culinary, Quality, Operations, Engineering, suppliers, and co-manufacturers.

Lead daily management systems and continuous improvement to improve equipment reliability and operational performance. Analyze KPIs, prioritize and lead improvement initiatives, manage small projects and capital initiatives, develop team capability, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.

The Staff PIC Process Development Engineer will lead the development and optimization of InP photonic integrated circuit fabrication processes for high-volume manufacturing, collaborate with teams, and provide technical leadership.

Develop and mature a cryogenic process-design-kit for superconducting quantum hardware. Own model-to-measurement characterization, plan and analyze cryogenic test chips, extend foundry PDKs to low-temperature regimes, partner with foundry and device teams, establish characterization infrastructure, and use EDA/layout/physical-verification toolsets to translate measurements into models, design rules, and documentation for scalable quantum circuit design.

Defines and implements supply chain processes, warehouse systems, automation workflows, business requirements, and user acceptance criteria. Analyzes facility performance, removes process and material-flow bottlenecks, configures warehouse management systems, and leads complex implementations. Partners with engineering, technology, operations, and facilities teams to standardize processes, improve throughput, reduce costs, document changes, and apply best practices across sites.

Lead development, characterization, qualification and transfer of high-volume optoelectronic assembly processes. Design and run DOE, perform FMEA/RCCA, specify/procure equipment, design tooling, document processes, train technicians, and ensure successful manufacturing transfer and equipment maintenance.

Senior individual contributor leading development, optimization, and transfer of InP PIC and laser fabrication processes for high-volume manufacturing. Responsibilities include epitaxial design, process flow development, process integration, SPC and statistical analysis, FMEA and root-cause work, metrology strategy, fab execution with remote partners, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring.

Plan, develop, and execute process engineering tasks for federal industrial and manufacturing projects. Create PFDs/P&IDs, perform mass/energy balances and equipment sizing, support PHAs/HAZOPs, prepare specifications, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, assist construction/commissioning/startup, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring safety, compliance, and process optimization.

Drive analysis, optimization, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes. Manage plant CAPEX projects from specification through commissioning. Support maintenance planning, supplier and HSE collaboration, equipment validation, troubleshooting, KPI analysis, corrective actions, and Quality Management System improvements to enhance efficiency, safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness.

The Process Safety Engineer will conduct consequence modeling, risk assessments, and support process safety services while interacting with clients.

Troubleshoot and improve InP-based photonic integrated circuit wafer fabrication by performing failure analysis, SPC monitoring, data collection/analysis using MES, coordinating lot movement, establishing process specifications, and supporting process and operations engineers to drive yield, reliability, throughput, and next-generation platform ramps.

Lead automation projects across design, engineering, implementation, commissioning and lifecycle support. Serve as technical authority for control systems (DCS), provide cybersecurity and operational support, collaborate with sites and vendors, ensure safety and regulatory compliance, and travel for commissioning as needed.

Responsible for conducting risk assessments, developing safety standards, providing technical support, conducting audits, offering training, and maintaining ARA software.

Develop, characterize, qualify, and transfer assembly manufacturing processes to production. Design and run DOE, perform FMEA and root-cause analysis, design tooling/fixtures, document processes, train technicians, and oversee equipment procurement, calibration, and maintenance for high-volume optoelectronic assembly.

Design, build, and maintain scalable automated workflows and integrations using platforms like n8n, Zapier, Make, or Workato. Integrate systems via APIs/webhooks, troubleshoot workflow issues, monitor performance, document processes, and support data synchronization across CRMs and business tools while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead the qualification and process development for a new InP photonics semiconductor fabrication facility, focusing on process integration and yield improvement.